Sentence examples for natural predisposition from inspiring English sources

Politics for her was not the result of some natural predisposition, or the realization of the inherent traits of human nature.

Call it Westminster's natural predisposition to entropy.

Brillat-Savarin described the roots of obesity as a natural predisposition conjuncted with the "floury and feculent substances which man makes the prime ingredients of his daily nourishment".

Because of its physical and physiological characteristics, the horse has a natural predisposition for use in sport.

He had no natural predisposition for belief in a divine being, but I think he forced himself to overcome it mostly to remind himself he wasn't He.

More importantly, we can't ignore the power of networks across sectors of society, something that Vermont, with its small size and face-to-face democracy, has a natural predisposition towards.

In an ideologically charged election, decided voters are not easily budged from their natural predispositions.

Mencius furthermore recognized natural predispositions other than the four beginnings that could potentially lead human beings astray.

By contrast, Xunzi seems to rule out the existence of natural predispositions with moral content when he claims that the sage kings generated ritual principles and precepts of moral duty.

He puts them in the category of "natural predispositions of the mind … for being affected by concepts of duty" and says that "[c]onsciousness of them is not of empirical origin; it can, instead, only follow from consciousness of a moral law, as the effect this has on the mind" (MM 6 399).

It is one of our natural predispositions.